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Comes an earth-brighteningyisitant. O blest 
Considerate spirit ! balm to misery, 
O kind Samayitah!O. heayen-borp. guest! 
Sou!-brightening gem, whose. shrine is 
purity ; 1 iG 
Yes, I aye seen jrich India’s, jewell’d 
mines, 
And been where music bathes the heart 
with glee ; 
Yet the soft tear on Pity’s check that shines, 
And the kind whisperings of her voice, 
to me 
Yield more choice interest,—more delight 
this heart,— 
Than all which swells proud domes with 
man’s assiduous art. 
Cullum-strect. 
—< 
THE ERL-KING: 
From the German of Gothe. 
By GEORGE OLAUS BORROW. 
Who Is it that gallops so late on the wild! 
O it is the father that carries his child! 
He presses him close in his circling arm, 
To save him from cold, and to shield him from harm. 
Enorr,. 
New Patents and Mechanical Inventions. 
[Dec. 1,. 
“Dear baby, what. makes ye your countenance: 
hide?” 1 
“‘Spur, father, your courser, and roweb hid sitte 5» 
The Erl-king is chasing us ovey the heath... 
«Peace, baby, thou seest a yupoury wreath.” ~ 
“ur 
‘Dear boy, come with me, und Ill join in your sport, 
And show ye the place where tlie filiries: resort 1) 1s 
My mother, who dwells in the cool pleasant mine, 
Shall clothe thee in garments so fair and so fine? | 
«My father, my father, in mercy attend, 1 
And hear what is said by the whispering fiend? 
“Be quiet, be quiet, my dearly-lov’d child, . 
Tis nought but the wind as it stirs on the wild,” 
©Dear baby, if thou wilt but veatnre with nie, 
My daughter shall dandle thy form on her knee; 
My daughter, who dwells where the moon-shadows 
play, 
Shall lall ye to sleep with the song of the fay.” 
“‘My father, my father, and seest. thou mot 
His sorceress daaghter in yonder dark spot 2” 
“f see sometiiing truly, thou dear little fool,— 
1 see the grey alders that hang by the pool.” 
* Sweet baby, I doat on that beautiful form, 
Aud thou shalt ride with me the wings of the 
storm,” 
“‘O father, my father, he grapples me now, 
And already has done mea mischiet, i vow.” 
The father was terrified, onward he press’d,, 
And closer he eradled the child to his breast ; 
And reach’d the far cottage, and, wild with alarm, 
He found that the baby hung dead on his arm! 
NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS, 
= 
To Tuomas Gauntcett, of Bath, Sur- 
g@eon’s Instrument-maker ; for certain 
Improvements on Vapour Baths.— 
June 26, 1822. 
BIS invention consists in a porta- 
@ ble apparatus, which Mr. G. calls 
a portable vapour-bath, and by means 
of which apparatus he conveys steam, 
for the purposes of a vapour-bath, in 
two or more directions at the same 
time, and by the same movement; one 
of the said two directions being under 
or immediately about the feet, and 
the other or others upwards gene- 
rally, into a casing or dress suspended 
by a portable frame over thé patient. 
And the invention also consists in 
such.an arrangement of the said ap- 
paratus, that. the said two or more 
different directions may be given to 
the ‘steam, and the steam regulated 
either by the patient or an assistant by 
means of a handle and universal joint, 
which handle may be’ brought by 
means of the said universal joint to 
any situation most convenient to mect 
the hand of the operator. 
This vapour-bath is simple in its 
construction, and effectual in its ap- 
plication ; it is well adapted for the use 
of hospitals and dispensaries; and is 
calculated, from its simplicity and 
‘efficacy, to bring into general use an 
agreeable and salutary practice, as 
well asa’ powerful remedy, in many 
obstinate diseases. In this apparatus 
the stimulant power of heat is modi- 
ficd and tempered by the: moistare, 
diffused through the air; and, as) the 
elastic vapour, like air, is a_ less 
powerful conductor of heat than a 
watery fluid, the effect of vapourtin 
raising the temperature of the bodyis 
much less than that of the hot-bath. 
Its ‘heating effect is also farther dimi- 
nished by the copious’ perspiration 
which ensues; so that, on all accounts, 
the vapour-bath is safer, as it isin 
most cases more effectuak, than the. 
hot-water bath, and may be employed 
with success where the hot-bath would 
be attended with danger. .The vapour- 
bath may be applied to the whole body, 
or to any part. of it: its immediate 
effects are, to excite or increase the 
action of the superficial arteries, by 
which the determination of blood to 
the deeper-seated parts is diminished : 
this increase of circulation at the sur- 
face of the body produces a copious 
perspiration, which may be continued, 
as itis excited, at pleasure. Itshould, 
however, always cease beiore debility 
begins. The utility of this applicatioa 
is obvious in all cases of internal in- 
flammation ; it draws a great quantity 
of blood to the surface, and. relieves 
the internal parts by the secretion of 
the skin, which is the mode nature 
takes to resolve inflammations and 
fevers. Resides an increased perspi- 
ration, other effects ate PeTUREAL ON 
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